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CONTENTS

1. Tundra

Victor Cruz, Cristel Barrera & Lesley Campos

2. Introduction

  • The Tundra is a cold amd dry biome. Expecting alot of snow, alot of people are surprised to learn that the tundra may receive no more precipitation than a desert. Another thing is that most of the soil in the tundra is frozen all year. The frozen soil is called Permafrost
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  • The abiotics in tundra are strong winds, rainfall, short summer days, and very long and cold winters. The are related to the biotic organisms because plants like mosses have to addapt to very long and cold winters because the sun does not come up in the winter.




3. Alaska

tundras climate is different throughout the two seasons it has. in winter its about -30 degrees. and the summers reach up to 45-90 degrees.



4. Food Web

food_web_c2.jpg

  • Create an energy pyramid based on one chain in your food web.
  • Label trophic levels and percent of available energy at each level.

5. Ecosystem Disruption



Alaskan Tundra:

Due to careless mistakes from humans while dealing with oil pipelines, the fragile Alaskan Tundra has been disrupted.

  1. How were some of the animals in the area affected?

  2. what can we do to make sure oil spills don’t occur?



HYPERLINK "http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/oil_spills.htm" http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0215471/oil_spills.htm



HYPERLINK "http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/SEEJ/Alaska/miller2.htm" http://arcticcircle.uconn.edu/SEEJ/Alaska/miller2.htm


6. Citations and References